On the disks of Futurama, Volume 3, if you sit for a few moments on any menu, the voices of various characters from the show start heckling you. "As captain of this DVD, I order you to choose an episode... or else." It's cute, but it can get a tiny bit old if, for example, you're waiting to start the next episode till your wife gets out of the loo.
It's no where near as annoying as what happens if you wait for your wife to get out of the bathroom before you start the next episode of the most recently released season of the new Doctor Who. Fucking idiots*! Leave the menu paused for a minute, and they spoil a major plot point from the last episode of the season. You patiently wait all these extra months so you can support the show financially instead of download it, restraining yourself from reading spoilers on the net so it can be fresh and exciting the first time you see it... and the bastards blow one of the major surprises on the menu of disk 1. So very sad.
To those who design DVD menus: Not everyone who's watching your DVD has already seen the entire season (or entire movie). Please don't put things in the menu (or the background sound or visuals) that ruins the plot.
*: Don't get me wrong, I love the show. But whoever designed that DVD menu (or rather, whoever chose the sound clips playing in the background when you're on the menu) deserves to be mauled by overweight sci-fi conventioneers.
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